Mrs. Oloumi said he believed that Mr. Boudin never fully accepted the role of prosecutor.
“He seems to value the perpetrators more than the victims,” he said.
David Lee, a professor of political science at San Francisco State University, said the two revocation elections in San Francisco — members of the Board of Education in February and Mr. Boudin on Tuesday – was a call for clarity from a grumpy electorate.
“There is anger at the failure of the government, the failure of the city council, to address the pressing issues,” Mr. Lee. On the brink of a generational change of guard in San Francisco: two iconic San Franciscans, Nancy Pelosi, a spokeswoman for the House, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, are on the eve of their careers, voters are sending a message from frustration and longing for change. , said Mr. Lee. This was especially true for Asian-American voters, he believes.
“In San Francisco, a third of the population is Asian and they don’t hear anyone listening to them: the City Council or the Democratic establishment,” he said.
At the same time, many political analysts warned not to read the result too much because it reflected the dynamics of a revoked election: when Mr. Boudin was elected in 2019, receiving only 36 percent of the vote in the first round of voting. In the third round, under the city’s classified election system, he finally slowly overtook his main rival for work, Suzy Loftus, by a few thousand votes.
“In a revocation election, you are running against yourself,” said Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco. Mr. Brown said he voted to keep Mr. Boudin in office in protest of the withdrawal process. But he also criticized Mr Boudin, whom he described as “a warrior for the oppressed”.
“That’s what it is,” Mr. Brown. “He’s certainly not a prosecutor.”
Holly Secon contributed to the report.